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          <title>please don&#8217;t be mad</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Rarity asked Twilight Sparkle a very important favor. &#8220;Twilight,&#8221; she&#8217;d said, rushing to leave and catch her train to Canterlot, &#8220;I am expecting a letter.&#8221; &#8220;A letter?&#8221; Twilight had asked, watching as the unicorn ran to and fro, making sure she&#8217;d not forgotten a thing.&#160; &#8220;Yes, a letter,&#8221; Rarity asked, wrapping a scarf around her suitcase, and then around her…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[Twilight forgets to bring a very important letter. She can totally make up for it, though. Right? Rarity? Right, Rarity? Rar&#8211;]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone! Thank you all for your patience with writing these past few months. As some of you know, I started grad school last year, and my first semester was very good but also incredibly difficult&#8211;both adjusting to school work, to writing original, and to coping with the brutal winter at my new home. But! It&#8217;s a new year, and I&#8217;m adjusting better even…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[I.&#160; Without a way of telling it, time stretched out before Princess Twilight Sparkle like an ocean.&#160; Minutes melted into hours, hours melted into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, and years into decades, until the ocean of time swallowed her whole and she couldn’t even feel it around her anymore as she sunk to its bottom. Minutes could be…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Our story begins with a letter, an alicorn, and half her memories gone.&#160; ‘Dear Princess Twilight,’ it reads, written in beautiful calligraphy, ‘you have consented to magically-induced temporary amnesia. Don’t worry! If Discord—who you should remember—did as agreed, your memories since moving to Ponyville have been altered. Crucially, certain ponies in your life have been removed from your memories, so as to prove a…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[In order to win a bet with Discord, an amnesiac Twilight Sparkle needs to go on dates with five ponies she doesn&#8217;t remember and guess which is her significant other. &#8212; Written for the &#8220;A Spark For Us&#8221; Twilight zine!]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I. His name was Copper Tune. He was a unicorn pony. This was his first meeting. This was her fourth.&#160; There was a lot that could be said of Copper. That his coat—copper like his name—looked remarkably soft, almost as if inviting you to touch it. Or that his mane, a pretty olive green, should look wrong, like rust, but somehow fit him perfectly.…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[There exists a world in which, in the darkest moment of her life, trapped in a prison of her own making, Twilight Sparkle&#8217;s nightmare ended thanks to the enduring love for the unicorn who&#8217;d saved her. Where her heart, for a moment, burned brighter than her miserable self-hate. A world where this was enough to free her mind, to use a necklace one last…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Rarity hadn&#8217;t slept with many men—not because there was shame to it, but because it was simply not her interest—but she’d gone to bed with enough of them to feel she’d pretty much experienced it all, seen it all, felt it all.  Even while still dating Blueblood, she thought she’d pretty much never feel butterflies ever again. That twisting hurricane in her stomach and…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Just tell me, oh, tell me the truth Tell me you&#8217;re too scared to lose Everything that we made While our dreams wash away in the rain Darling, oh, what did you do, love? If my life in the future was plagued by isolation, my return to the present was everything but. If it wasn’t my friends coming to see me daily, it was…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I held you deep in my arms When your world was falling apart I was the light in your dark I was always there for you when you lost it all No one knew exactly what to do with me. I’d been a prisoner for so long, and then a highly-guarded guest, and now? Now, I was simply another person living in a castle…]]></description>

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          <title>darling, what have you done</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[In the final installment of the Andromeda!AU series, past and future converge as Rarity is shot back to her own time and must come to terms not just with the future she saw, but the possibility she can do nothing to prevent it. Sequel to Graveyard. Andromeda AU belongs to Maximasmac. This fic is HUMANIZED! That means they&#8217;re magic humans with wings and stuff,…]]></description>

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          <title>Abuela is on the case!</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Today we find the elderly Hortensia “Abuela” Mondragon in her most natural and comfortable state: being a relentless busybody.&#160; Standing thin and tall under the frame of the kitchen door, wearing her Wednesday best, Abuela takes in the state of affairs through her thick, blue glasses: the counters piled with ingredients in varying states of preparation; a cookbook titled ‘America Does Have a Cuisine’…]]></description>

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          <title>The Chisme Stands Alone</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[An elderly grandmother who receives supernatural prophetic visions does what she does best: solve extremely domestic issues by being incredibly nosy. 1st original piece written for my whodunnit workshop at grad school! (for reference, chisme means gossip in Spanish) Thank you for reading! Thank you to lili, nonny, Dash, Cara, as well as James and Cursori for pre-reading and editing.]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[A crisp wind chilled Twilight Sparkle, her wings rustling at her side. Truthfully, she would have liked this meeting to happen inside the castle, where she would be warm, but Cadance had insisted on holding it outside for fresh air. So, there they all were instead—they being herself, Rarity, Princess Luna, Cadance, as well as Spike and Rainbow—all gathered in a courtyard outside the…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[We’d rented a cabin a little north of White Tail Woods.&#160; I remember the drive there, the wind tussling his blue hair, one hand on the steering wheel and the other holding mine—not as shyly as the first time he got to hold it, but still as gentle.&#160; “I’ll get the fireplace going as soon as we get there,” he was saying. “The owner…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hey all! Good news! For those going to EFNW, there will be physical editions of The Creature and the sequel for sale at the Book Nook! For those who haven&#8217;t read it, it and the sequel are some of my proudest works. Unfortunately, this will maybe be a limited run for the book as well as for every other physical version of my books…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[Blending in a crowd of costumed people outside the club, Applejack waved at Rarity from within the constraints of her full suit of knight armor (sans visor). “Rarity!” Rarity wasted no time rushing towards her, past a group of drunken pirates flirting with aliens, and when Applejack opened her arms for a comforting hug, she was grateful to fall into them. “Oh, thank God…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[She stumbled out of the club, the freezing air numbing her very exposed skin, yet doing absolutely nothing about soothing the burn in her heart, searing with a pain so intense it was almost disorienting. She came to a stop right at the edge of the sidewalk, her eyes fixed on a puddle on the street, the most pathetic woman in the world gawking…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
          <dc:creator>Monochromatic</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[They had a whole needlessly complicated system now. They could text. They could DM on PictoGram. Twilight would even go as far as being okay with calling—like the old times!&#8211;but she’d quickly learned Rarity Belle liked doing things her way. First, she ‘politely’ knocked (see: insistently and impatiently knocked) her fist on the wall her bedroom shared with Twilight’s office nook, like so: THONK…]]></description>

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